Enterprise Agile Coach

Optum Technology

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Kelly Thoma

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I am a rookie at delivering conference talks, and have delivered this talk at a local Agile Meet Up group. I have experience training over 2200 individuals on topics related to agile and Scrum. This includes training my company's internal proprietary scaling framework, Scrum Fundamentals, Story Mapping, Writing User Stories, Product Owner, Story Sizing, Backlog Refinement/ Prioritization and Leading SAFe 4.0.

I am an energetic, charismatic and witty story teller. I am an ICAgile Certified Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC) with expertise in training, coaching and facilitating agile practices within multiple Fortune 15 companies. I am a knowledgeable, engaging coach who is committed to sharing my knowledge and experiences to ensure everyone gets a firm grasp of the concepts being presented.

In addition to the ICE-AC certification, I am a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4), a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and hold Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1) and Training From the Back of the Room (TBR) certifications.

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Story Telling - Unleash the Promise of Agile – Can Finding Your Bottleneck Cut Your Time in Half?

schedule 1 month ago

45 mins

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Beginner

Could changing one simple thing be the secret to transforming your business, giving you the ability to deliver the highest possible customer value in the shortest amount of time?

Inspired by Steve Denning and Rich Sheridan (Joy Inc.), who consider themselves organizational story tellers and Daniel Vacanti's book, "Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability", I will tell the story of how, what I thought was a simple weekend project, turned into a learning opportunity about Lean Agile principles. Join me and listen to the entertaining story of how I unleashed the promise of agile by removing constraints, achieving flow and establishing sustainable throughput of value.

In this fun and engaging workshop, you will learn:

The one secret that could be the key to transforming your business

How to identify bottlenecks and discover continuous throughput of value and predictability

How to optimize system flow and reduce batch and cycle times by half

Why optimizing the flow of any system is the single most important factor in the delivery of sustainable value to your customers

I will share my personal journey of discovery, riddled with challenges and constraints, and provide participants an opportunity to explore their constraints and what bottlenecks are impeding their ability to deliver the highest customer value in the shortest amount of time.